There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

He might have had a leg to stand on here if this was an AI that he had trained himself on ethically-sourced data, but personally I don't want to be lectured by anyone about "our current capitalist culture" who is intentionally playing right into it by financially supporting the companies at the center of the AI bubble. The very corporations that are known to have scraped countless terabytes of unlicensed data for their own for-profit exploitation, by the way.

If you discard your self-proclaimed values the second that it becomes convenient or "valuable", you never had any values to begin with.

Practice what you preach, or don't preach at all.

If you truly believe AI is so great, own it. Trying to hide it is not a good look. It shows that they know it's something to be ashamed of.

As much as I don't like AI I don't blame him for using it. Opensource is a thankless sector where maintainers put in massive amount of work for nothing in return. If AI is helping him then all the power to him.

That being said we don't know how AI code generated currently will age. We know how the code 3 years ago ended up being slop of hard to maintain code but modern models are a lot more competent. Maybe he shouldn't have removed the coauthored by Claude thingy but in the end it's him using a tool and verifying it's output.

I used lutris back in the day for playing rocket league and I'd also use it today. I feel we should give this guy the benefit of the doubt for now. If in the future Lutris becomes less stable we should absolutely blame AI but until then I'll hold off on my judgement.

A number of weeks ago I noted that one app I use through Lutris for the various settings needed had stopped loading. So I did a lot of looking around to figure out what was going on (didn't know it was Lutris, I searched mention of issues with the app, with Wine, etc.)

Finally ran across a bug report in the Lutris github that sounded like my problem. And part of it was how slow some updates filter out, so I ended up doing an uninstall from the manager and manually forcing an update. And all is good now.

I wonder if the bug was AI driven (don't even recall what it was, it was a small update that broke things for some people).

Great to know I should probably expect more fires later. I probably need to see if I can make this app run on my own in Wine. A shame, it's working fine as is. But I need to be ready.

Interesting that the maintainer of Proton-GE personally closed the first issue. Keep an eye on Proton-GE's quality over the next few months.

Could someone branch the project off from a point in time when it was safely human-coded and develop from there?

Well, guess I'm uninstalling Lutris now. I'll have to manage my library the old fashioned way until a slop-free alternative comes along.

It's slop now despite using AI code for some time?

welp, another project off my list.
It was handy as in it enabled me to not require opening EGS, but I haven't been using EGS lately anyway.
It's easier to just stop using it rather than have to write a Firejail profile for it.